Religion: The Mystery of the Cloth

How big was Jesus Christ? Was He a strongly built man 5 feet 10 inches
tall, with long, delicate hands & feet, a right shoulder slightly lower
than the left? Did He have a brain weighing approximately 1,492 grams?
These questions were debated for three days last week by 200 learned
scientists and black-robed scholars of the Roman Catholic Church in the
huge, frescoed Hall of the Papal Chancellery in Rome. It was the first
International Congress of Studies of the Holy Shroud.

During the 7th Century two early churchmen, Saints Braulionis and
Adamnan of lona, referred to the existence of a...